Daily Search Forum Recap: April 26, 2017

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

Was There A Google Algorithm Update On Monday & Tuesday? Unsure.
Most of the automated tracking tools, with the exception of Algoroo, really showed massive spikes and volatility on either Monday or Tuesday, April 24th or 25th, of this week. The issue is, the chatter in the SEO community is not correlating to those tools...

Google Adds More Granular Review Filtering In Local Listings
Sergey Alakov was again, the first, if not one of the first, to spot this local reviews change - where when you see a local pack in the Google results, you can now filter those listings by reviews in a more granular manner. So now you can filter by half stars instead of just full stars...

Google Office Hallway Race Track
Jo Dethlefs posted on Instagram some photos of the Google Hamburg office, including this shot of one of the hallways designed as a race track. I guess Google wants their employees to race to their of